Monday, January 20, 2014

Word of the Day

bosky \BOS-kee\,
adjective:
1. covered with bushes, shrubs, and small trees; woody.
2. shady.

It was cradled in the bosky foothills of the coastal ranges.
-- Cecilia Dart-Thornton, "The Well of Tears," 2005

It stood in a hollow of a bosky park, crowded to a degree that surprised and even displeased me, with huge timber and dense shrubberies of laurel and rhododendron.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, "South Sea Tales," 1893

Bosky comes from the Middle English word bosk which referred to a bush.

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